What are the effects of staying up late on high blood pressure

Good living habits will make people healthier, especially regular sleep will make you more energetic for work, life and study the next day, while staying up late will make you listless. The habit of staying up late is a very bad habit, especially for people who already have symptoms of high blood pressure. So what are the effects of staying up late on high blood pressure? Hypertensive patients are at greater risk, and staying up late will cause high blood pressure and bring inevitable harm.

If you don't sleep well at night, your blood pressure at night will rise because your sympathetic nerves cannot get a good rest, and insomnia may even cause anxiety, which in turn leads to a "non-spoon-shaped" blood pressure change pattern. This condition can cause great damage to target organs such as the heart, brain, and kidneys. Therefore, patients with hypertension must attach great importance to sleep quality and should try to avoid staying up late. Especially patients with unstable blood pressure control and elderly hypertensive patients should prevent serious accidents such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases caused by staying up late.

People with high blood pressure can develop good eating and living habits in their daily lives to completely solve the problem of high blood pressure and promote their own recovery.

1. Eat a light diet

Patients with hypertension should not eat too salty food because salt (the main ingredient is sodium chloride) contains sodium. Excessive sodium can cause water retention in the body, increase blood volume, increase the burden on the heart, and increase blood pressure. Therefore, in principle, all patients with hypertension should eat lighter meals. Some hypertensive patients changed their usual habit of eating salted fish and pickles and switched to a low-salt diet, and their blood pressure miraculously dropped to normal. In addition, eat more vegetables and easily digestible foods, and less fat-rich foods, especially animal fats and offal. For the elderly, frying is not advisable when cooking, as this type of food will increase the fat content.

2. Feel good

As the saying goes, "A smile can make you look younger." Practice has shown that people who are cheerful and optimistic live longer. If you can remain calm when you are successful and remain calm when you are unsuccessful, and try to reduce your emotional fluctuations, this will be of great significance for maintaining relatively stable blood pressure and reducing the occurrence of complications. On the contrary, if you are excited, nervous or sad all day long, and worry about trivial things, it will cause your heart rate to increase, blood pressure to rise, and blood viscosity to increase, causing the already elevated blood pressure to continue to rise, inducing hypertensive crisis, cerebral vascular rupture and other serious complications.

3. Combine work and rest

A balance between work and rest, and a combination of movement and stillness are the guarantee of health and longevity. For patients with hypertension, proper rest (including mental rest) is very important. Especially for the elderly, all the organs in the body are in different degrees of aging, so they should pay more attention to rest. Try to take a nap at lunch time and go to bed early at night. It is best to take a walk in the morning, breathe some fresh air in the park, or practice Tai Chi or Qigong.

4. Adhere to proper exercise, lose weight scientifically, and maintain a normal weight.